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Open data, democracy and public sector reform
A look at open government data use from data.gov.uk (Based on an MSc Dissertation by Tim Davies, July 2010) This is an online report based on an MSc Dissertation at the Oxford Internet Institute by Tim Davies submitted to the University of Oxford, July 2010. It is shared using the Digress.it platform which allows for paragraph level commenting and hyperlinking to elements of the document. Governments are increasingly making their data available online in standard formats and under licenses that permit the free re-use of data. The justifications advanced for this include claims regarding the economic potential of open government data (OGD), the potential for OGD to promote transparency and accountability of government and the role of OGD in supporting the reform and reshaping of public services.
The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eight million placenames that are available for download free of charge.
GeoNames
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